Safety wear item

Abstract

A safety wear item featuring a series of LEDs mounted on each of four separate mounting strips, two strips extending down from a respective one of the wear item shoulders and two other strips wrapped around each side of the lower region of a wear item waist. The strips with LEDs are each readily and quickly detachable from the wear item to allow washing the vest or to replace a strip having a defective LED thereon.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A safety wear item comprising a vest in which at least four strips are separately mounted to said vest, each of said separate strip segments of strips having a series of LEDs attached along the length thereof, two of said strip segments of a length to extend over a respective shoulder portion of said vest and partially down the front and the back portion of said vest; and two other of said strips extending horizontally only partially around a respective lower side of said vest also having two conductors connected together at one end by a connection and to said battery at the other end whereby LEDs are visible to onlookers to the front or the back, or to the right or to the left of the vest;
 a battery mounted in a pocket at the front of said vest; each strip connected at a front end to said battery; each strip having a conductor at a back end connecting together separate conductors which are both connected at one end to each other and both connected to said battery at their other ends connected together by an electrical connection and other ends to said battery; and a switch connected to said conductors and said battery, said battery and switch located at the approximate middle of the height of said vest; said vest having an upper vee shaped opening able to allow a wearer's head to be passed through said opening; 
 a zipper extending about half way up a bottom of said vest able to be unzipped to facilitate putting said vest on and off of a wearer; and 
 a pair of pockets on either side of said zipper.